MAL-2026-16390

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/oracle-redis/MAL-2026-16390.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-16390
Published
2026-09-22T18:08:06Z
Modified
2026-09-22T18:45:07Z
Summary
Malicious code in oracle-redis (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (c800d0651330b1c1cd5d9c5cb2b6966eecefb2d2c28949d0670f485d820db3a6)

The package publishes as oracle-redis but ships a verbatim copy of the ioredis README, source tree, and repository URL (git://github.com/luin/ioredis.git), presenting itself as ioredis under a different name. The package.json declares two additional runtime dependencies that are not part of ioredis's real dependency set and are never imported anywhere in the shipped built/ source: redis-type-intel ^1.10.5 and pino-ulid ^2.12.2. Because they are ordinary dependencies with caret ranges, npm install oracle-redis resolves and installs those two packages (and their transitive graph) into the installer's node_modules, executing whatever lifecycle scripts they declare, even though nothing in the ioredis code being wrapped ever loads them. The combination of a name-squat lure over a popular library plus unused, caret-pinned extra dependencies is a dependency-delivery shape: the harm, if any, arrives through the transitive install of the extra names rather than through this tarball's own code.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins":  [
        {
            "id":  "IN-MAL-2026-020298",
            "import_time":  "2026-09-22T18:23:45.268002209Z",
            "modified_time":  "2026-09-22T18:08:06Z",
            "sha256":  "c800d0651330b1c1cd5d9c5cb2b6966eecefb2d2c28949d0670f485d820db3a6",
            "source":  "amazon-inspector",
            "versions":  [
                "5.11.3"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / oracle-redis

Package

Name
oracle-redis
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Purl
pkg:npm/oracle-redis

Affected ranges

Affected versions

5.*
5.11.3

Database specific

cwes 
[
    {
        "cweId":  "CWE-506",
        "description":  "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name":  "Embedded Malicious Code"
    }
]
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files":  [
        {
            "path":  "package.json",
            "sha256":  "e5f763b250baaea3fed9e4d692825e9864526b8ef614339045f47fff50fb3083",
            "tlsh":  "da61ff20dd9a9d732ac441f9e8b502819525c40b2e50fc0db3f953ad4f9e6bf31b9a2d"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity":  [
        {
            "filename":  "oracle-redis-5.11.3.tgz",
            "hashes":  {
                "sha1":  "81f13d4426d451a25d109ce4833ea809c375523a",
                "sha512_sri":  "sha512-4aapEwKGeVugfaSVZW7NQOo36rcIRa+9Tc6EjHtejGyJeHVWOeDaXHgp0WF9NdwqIVI4SiswiRUi3wEy0yCaDQ=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/oracle-redis/MAL-2026-16390.json"